Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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Between Ashkenaz and Sefarad: Tosafist Teachings in the Talmudic Commentaries of Ritva
(New York : The Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press ; Jersey City, NJ : Distributed by Ktav Publishing, 2010)The extent to which leading rabbinic scholars of northern Europe (Ashkenaz) during the high middle ages were familiar with the writings of their counterparts in Spain (Sefarad) and points further east within the Moslem ... -
Between Liturgy and Social History: Priestly Power in Late Antique Palestinian Synagogues?
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Between Texts and Archaeology: Nabratein and Jacob of Kefar Nevoraia in Rabbinic Literature.
(Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2009)"The site of Nabratein is situated on a remote promontory in an extensive pine forest northeast of Safed. This report is the sixth and final volume of the Meiron Excavation Project. The discovery in 1981 of the pediment ... -
Between the tosafist academies and the other battei midrash in Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages
(Jerusalem: Shazar, 2006)במאמר זה אדון בשאלת יסוד חשובה הנוגעת למרכזים ולמוסדות ללימוד התורה בארצות אשכנז במאה השתים־עשרה והשלוש־עשרה: מה בין ישיבות בעלי התוספות לבין בת י המדרש האחרים? האם אפשר לזהות הבדלים וחילוקים בין המוסדות הללו, ומה ... -
Bittě-Yâ, daughter of Pharaoh (1 Chr 4,18), and Bint(i)-ʿAnat, daughter of Ramesses II
(Peeters, 1998)According to 1 Chr 4,18, a Judahite named Mered, who lived in the 12th or 11th century BCE, was married to a "daughter/granddaughter of Pharaoh". The name of the woman, vocalized Bittě-Yâ in the Babylonian and Alexandrian ... -
The Book of the Wars of the Lord (Num. 21:14–20): Philology and Hydrology, Geography and Ethnography.
(American Oriental Society, 2020-07)Num. 21:14 contains one of the most enigmatic phrases in the Pentateuch: אֶת־וָהֵב בְּסוּפָה . The usual interpretations of אֶת turn the phrase into gibberish because they require the presence of a verb, which is nowhere ... -
The Byzantine Biblical Commentaries from the Genizah: Rabbanite vs. Karaite
(Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 2007)In light of the above, it seems quite certain that Reuel is a Rabbanite. His commentary and the Commentary on Genesis and Exodus appear to be the best representatives of the native Byzantine Rabbanite tradition, relatively ... -
A Byzantine manuscript of sermons: Description and selections about prayer and the synagogue
(Yad Izhak Ben Zvi, 1999)במהלך ימי הביניים, ובמיוחד בקהילות היהודיות באגן הים התיכון, היו הדרשות חל ק מתפילות השבת בבית הכנסת ומאות רבבים הכינו ודרשו אלפי דרשות לקהילות רבו ת ומגוונות. למרות זאת, אוספים מועטים בלבד של דרשות מימי הביניים הגיעו ... -
Can prayer be meaningful?: Feeling the presence of god
(Yeshiva University Student Body, 2018-02)Tefilla presents, for me, the most formidable challenge I face as someone trying to be a responsible and committed Jew. The sheer repetitive nature of the required text - three times a day, at least, every day, without ... -
Can we all get along?
(Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, 2012)To my mind it all comes down to one very simple and basic issue: Do we have respect for the legitimacy of opinions with which we disagree? I believe that many of the challenges to harmony that we face in our community ... -
Cannon fire over Sarajevo and sin in Ansbach: A passage from rabbi Jacob Emden’s 18th century memoir
(Jewish Review of Books, 2010)The autobiography of the matriarch and businesswoman Gluckel of Hameln (1646- . 1724) has long been available in English. So has the autobiography of Solomon Maimon (1753-1800), the philosopher and notorious heretic. ... -
Capital punishment
(New York: Routledge, 2003)Medieval halakhists ruled, on the basis of talmudic sources, that the Jewish judiciary (lesser Sanhedrins) could not try capital cases unless the Great Sanhedrin was sitting in its chamber at the Temple. The death penalty ... -
The career of a neo-Babylonian court scribe.
(American Schools of Oriental Research, 2008)Ile i-Marduk, descendant of the Eppes-ili family, began work in the vicinity of Babylon as a member of a limited group of court scribes who recorded legal proceedings overseen by the Neo-Babylonian royal judges.1 Later in ... -
The case for adversarial yahad.
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2009)The words yaḥad and yaḥdāw regularly denote the relationship between opponents in physical warfare. Evidence from Hebrew and Akkadian shows that they have a similar function in descriptions of legal disputes, as well. -
The Case for Fricative-Laterals in Proto-Semitic.
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The challenges and blessings of the internet: Technology from an historical perspective
(Scholar's Press, 2020)This raises the possibility that new forms of learning will also be made possible by the advent of the internet. Some are already taking place. But who knows? Perhaps the internet’s impact will be far more dramatic, ... -
Changing attitudes toward apostates in tosafist literature, late twelfth-early thirteenth centuries
(Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2012)More than a half century ago, Jacob Katz published a pioneering study on the theme of “Yisra’el she-hata’, ’af ‘al pi she-hata’, Yisra’el hu’ (a Jew, even though he has sinned, remains a Jew).” According to Katz, this ... -
The chaplain and the survivors
(Nextbook, 2018-04-05)Before my father died, he reflected during a dinner that took place in New York City in April, 1970, which celebrated the 25th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald. He said, “This is a simcha for these people. ...
